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IST 6th Call for Proposals
Outline of Work in the Domain of “Mobile
and Personal Communications and Systems,
including Satellite systems and Service”
A Presentation by DG-INFSO Unit E4
IST National Contact Point Meeting
Brussels, 16 January, 2001
Demosthenes Ikonomou ([email protected])
The vision for mobile & personal
communications in the early ‘90s
Global
Satellite
Suburban
Urban
In-Building
Home-Cell
Macro-Cell
Micro-Cell
Pico-Cell
dik
Provide wireless broadband connectivity in all
operating environments
The vision for mobile & personal
communications today
Satellite
S-UMTS Broadband
Wireless
IP
Broadband
Society
4th Generation W-LANBluetooth
DVB-S
Personal
DECT
DVB-T
Area Networks
IR
DAB
UMTS ++
Body LANs
Indoor
Broadband
UMTS
Broadcasting
WFA
GPRS/EDGE
Local Area Networks
MBS 60
MWS
GSM
MBS 40
xMDS
Satellite/HAPS
Cellular
Quasi-Cellular
Wireless Local Loop
A plethora of solutions
Highlights of Work in Place
1st IST Call (WP ‘99)
3rd IST Call (WP ‘00)
IV.5.1 Re-configurable Radio
IV.5.2 Terrestrial Systems & Networks
IV.5.2 Terrestrial Systems & Networks
IV.5.3 Satellites Networks & Services
– Integration with Digital Broadcasting
4th IST Call (WP ‘00)
– Broadband Wireless
IV.5.4 4G system & network concepts
– UMTS evolution
for wireless communications
– Location-based VAS
5th IST Call (WP ‘00)
IV.5.3 Satellites Networks & Services
IV.5.1 Re-configurable radio systems &
– S-UMTS
networks
– Broadband Multimedia
IV.5.5 Take-up measures
IV.5.4 Enabling Technologies & Tools
– Mainly smart antenna and adaptive 6th IST Call (WP ‘01)
modulations
IV.5.2 Terrestrial Systems & Networks
2nd IST Call (WP ‘99)
– Including R&D on 4th Generation
IV.5.5 Take-up measures
Systems Definition;
Action Line (AL) Open in Call 6
IV.5.2 Terrestrial Systems & Networks
 It aims to study develop and validate novel terrestrial wireless systems and
networks, including:
 fixed wireless access schemes;
 advanced public/private wireless local area networks, and
 inter-working mobile/broadcasting systems supporting the provision of
broadband M2M services;
 Key aspects concern:
 support of mobility across networks and seamless roaming;
 radio resource mechanisms and protocols that enable inter- and intranetwork handover;
 optimisation of network elements and performance in a heterogeneous
services context;
 QoS evaluation and management;
 It also aims to further study, develop and validate the concept of 4th
generation of wireless systems and networks;
Action Line (AL) Open in Call 6
IV.5.2 Terrestrial Systems & Networks
 The AL open in the 6th Call should not be seen in isolation
from those called in previous calls;
 Integration of various radio and network access
technologies contributes to the further longer term
evolution towards 4G and to the necessity for further
evolution of software re-configurable systems and
networks;
 Moreover, the subsequent call of WP’01 (Call 7) should
further open the possibility to extend and take maximum
advantage of the work put in place through the previous
calls;
What is a 4th generation system (4G) ?
• Nobody knows yet;
• Nevertheless there is some consensus on what might be
the features of a 4G system;
• It should entail advanced and innovative concepts and
technologies for self-aware, self-organising ad-hoc
wireless networks;
• May be not a NEW air interface scheme but a flexible
one that allows scalable wireless connectivity;
• Try to assess potential spectrum requirements and coexistence issues, including the study of strategies and
the development of appropriate tools allowing a
distributed flexible management of the spectrum;
4G - Network aspects
To investigate and develop advanced and innovative
concepts and technologies for self-aware, self-organising
ad-hoc wireless networks:
• dynamic topologies;
• addressing, bridging, routing;
• bandwidth constrained, variable capacity links;
• congestion management, resource sharing;
• limited physical security, energy-constrained;
• interaction amongst different protocol layers;
• interworking in heterogeneous, hierarchical networks;
• evolved mobile IP: The IPvW (IP suitable for Wireless);
• adaptive QoS schemes;
Spontaneous Device Networking
(self-organising, ad-hoc)
An example - multi-hop architecture:
 two devices which cannot establish a direct communication employ an
intermediate “bridge” between devices.
Cluster 4
Cluster 5
Cluster 1
Br.1
M
Signalling & data
among bridges
Cluster 3
M
Br.2
M
WF fixed
Br.3
WF mobile
WF bridge
Cluster 2
M
MASTER
Source: IST WIND-FLEX project
http://www.vtt.fi/ele/research/els/projects/windflex.htm
4G - Radio aspects (and protocol stack
implications)
To develop innovative air interface schemes allowing for
scalable wireless connectivity:
• Very high bit rate radio interface (>100 Mbits) for
indoors and outdoors;
• Advanced radio architectures & new radio
environments;
• Capacity enhancement;
• Self-planning;
• Dynamic reconfiguration;
• Joint optimisation of source & channel coding schemes;
• Advanced antennas and space time processing;
• Precision tracking (of user devices);
4G - Spectrum issues
To assess potential spectrum requirements and coexistence issues, including the study of strategies and
the development of appropriate tools allowing a
distributed flexible management of the spectrum
resources:
• New Spectrum for existing and future Radio
Interfaces;
• Re-Farming of military and broadcasting
spectrum;
• Co-existence of/with licensed systems;
• Spectrum etiquette for unlicensed technologies;
Is it too early to start R&D on 4G ?
 Japan’s MPT already announced that it will co-operate with the
private sector to set a standard for advanced cellular phones, which
can send/receive moving images instantly;
 The group will standardize telecommunication protocols and conduct
joint experiments, aiming to compile a basic plan by the summer of
2001;
 Such cell-phones will hit the market as early as 2007;
 The future cell phones are expected to have a throughput several
hundred times faster than current models;
 MPT will also set up a special panel inviting experts from consumer
electronics makers, computer S/W developers, telecom firms as well
as academics.
 ITU Special Group;
 WWRF (http://www.ist-wsi.org);
Enhancing existing KA4 projects with
participation from NAS
 A consortium of an on-going KA4 project can submit a
proposal to enhance the project scope by adding work
performed by NAS partner(s);
 The “enlarged” consortium can submit a proposal for
evaluation in the context of the coming open KA4 AL’s;
 In order to facilitate “first contact” between researchers
from NAS and existing projects in the area of mobile and
wireless communications, a two hours session will take
place in Brussels on the 13th of March, 2001;
 For further information please contact:
[email protected]
Future Calls for Proposals-WP2001
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/workprogramme.htm
7th IST Call
Publication date: June 2001 (tentative)
Submissions deadline: October 2001 (tentative)
IV.5.1 Re-configurable Radio
– Including 4G
IV.5.3 Satellites Networks & Services
IST 7th call for proposals (1/2)
IV.5.1 Reconfigurable radio systems & networks
Key goals are the development of:
•
Novel techniques and technologies in the area of combined DSP/RF
design that will lead to the realisation of efficient and cost-effective
adaptive transceivers (terminals as well as base stations). The
combinations of and trade off between dedicated ASIC implementations
and reconfigurable logic as well as optimised algorithmic partitioning are
of particular interest.
•
Open architectures and service/applications development environments,
enabling the co-existence, interoperability, portability and adaptation of
services, across heterogeneous wireless network platforms. Aspects of
particular relevance are those related to self adaptation to traffic load
and characteristics, including multi-streaming, dynamic bandwidth
allocation, and spectrum sharing.
IST 7th call for proposals (2/2)
IV.5.3 Satellite systems and services
Key aspects concern:
•
The technologies and demonstrators based on architectures demonstrating a viable
evolution towards advanced MSS/FSS systems. The work relates to integration of
satellite key features such as broadcasting (e.g. S-DAB or S-DVB), optimised
support of Internet Protocol including voice transmission by IP protocol using
satellite wideband networks and multicasting, delivery of multimedia services
through supplemental, complementary, or extension strategies with the mobile
terrestrial networks.
•
The development of advanced technologies and architectures allowing for
introduction of novel BSS systems with scalable support of multimedia services. The
work relates to support of broadcasting technologies supporting novel interactive
multimedia applications, optimised multicasting and caching architectures and to the
associated FCAPS management functions. Technologies for dynamic optimisation of
spectrum and network resources are common objectives.
Further information needed...
Bartolome Arroyo-Fernandez
Jean-Louis Lavroff
Jorge Pereira
Bernard Barani
Fabrizio Sestini
Francisco Guirao
Jose-Joaquim Fernandes
Demosthenes Ikonomou
European Commission
Information Society Directorate-General
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Documentation: Summary of projects
MOBILE
COMMUNICATIONS
SUMMIT
Barcelona, Spain, 9-12 September 2001
http://www.mobilesummit2001.org/